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Products that do what I ran sentiment analysis on Show HN comments and got the meanest ones does

1. 1DO
   Dataset of Sarcastic HN Comments▲11

   2021 · github.com

2. 2HS
   HN Sentiment API – I ranked tech CEOs by how much you hate them▲27

   I built an API that extracts entities from Hacker News comments and classifies sentiment towards them as positive, negative, or neutral. It also classifies overall comment sentiment and assigns each entity a label (person, location, date, technology, organization, other). 505k+ comments, Oct 31 - Present. Here's the leaderboard: LOVED: - Steve Jobs: 44% positive, 7% negative - Linus Torvalds: 43% positive, 5% negative - Gabe Newell: 34% positive, 8% negative MID: - Bill Gates: 22% positive, 8% negative - Tim Cook: 15% positive, 30% negative - Bezos: 12% positive, 18% negative HATED: -…

   Dec 2025 · docs.hnpulse.com

3. 3CB
   Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API▲180

   2014 · kolinko.github.io

4. 4EH
   Embed HN comments in your website▲137

   2016 · comments.network

5. 5HN
   Hacker News Comments▲189

   2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com

6. 6AS
   A simple blogging platform I built out of frustration with other tools▲210

   2021 · dynablogger.com

7. 7HR
   HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217

   2016 · hnreplies.com

8. 8IB
   I built Analytics for my Ghost blog▲76

   2018 · ghostboard.io

9. 9IM
   I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions▲144

   2021 · upvotetracker.com

10. 10FS
    FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project]▲22

    2012 · chrome.google.com

11. 11CH
    Collapse HN Comments▲141

    Little chrome extension I made to collapse comments on HN, feel free to use it if you want.

    2014 · github.com

12. 12CC
    Collapse Comments on Hacker News▲93

    2016 · chrome.google.com

13. 13PH
    Predict how well people will react to your writing▲84

    2018 · isittoasted.com

14. 14WS
    Wallstreetbets Sentiment Past 24 Hours▲40

    2021 · wsbsentiment.io

15. 15RI
    RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult▲75

    2018 · roastme.io

16. 16IC
    I created a Chrome extension that reveals HN's hidden comment scores.▲5

    2011 · chrome.google.com

17. 17LW
    Last Words. HN user's final post before being banned▲27

    2016 · github.com

18. 18DO
    Dataset of Linus Torvalds' rants sorted by hate▲17

    2019 · github.com

19. 19IM
    I made an NLP based essay grader▲49

    2016 · gradeflex.com

20. 20IB
    Inspired by a HN comment, half stars proposed for Unicode [pdf]▲55

    2016 · files.righto.com

21. 21WJ
    We just launched a Bayesian-Based Sentiment Tracker▲42

    2010 · groubalcsi.com

22. 22IG
    I got tired of stressing about my karma, so I wrote this.▲46

    2012 · bitbucket.org

23. 23IB
    I built a tool that scrapes customers reviews to find pain points▲8

    2025 · simplerowdata.com

24. 24IM
    I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours▲37

    I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post. Everything reproduces from the repo with one command…

    Jul 2026 · jonno.nz

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